A Tennessee judge extended the restraining order against Bryan Seaver and reset the hearing to Oct. 20.

Moving a hearing and extending a temporary restraining order keeps the same civil restraint in place. It does not decide whether the alleged threats were made, and it does not create a criminal case. USA TODAY reported Chancellor I'Ashea Myles reset the She's Alive hearing to Oct. 20 after the company opposed Bryan Seaver's request for more time. Oct. 20 is the date the court is now set to take up a longer injunction.

USA TODAY reported Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, that Davidson County Chancellor I'Ashea Myles agreed on Oct. 6 to reschedule the hearing for temporary injunctive relief to the morning of Oct. 20. The temporary restraining order against Bryan Seaver is extended to that date. She's Alive, LLC, the company Dolly Parton set up for her professional property and business interests, had asked the court not to delay the hearing. A continuance is a scheduling order. It is not a finding on the lawsuit.

USA TODAY reported that She's Alive sued Seaver and his security company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services, on Sept. 22 and also sought the restraining order. The filings, as the paper described them, accuse him of threatening to smear Parton's legacy and of making threats "of real-world violence" against employees. One filing alleged he vowed to "destroy the entire brand" and told her entertainment attorney, "I'm not an entertainment person. I'm a killer." The paper reported Parton died at 80 on Aug. 25 after cancer, that Seaver had been her head of security for more than 20 years and was the person she trusted to announce her death, and that he was notified on Sept. 16 that he and his services were terminated. Those are allegations in a civil filing.

USA TODAY reported that Seaver denied the allegations in a Sept. 23 statement to ABC News, calling the order "spurious and simply a publicity stunt." He told ABC News, "Dolly called me her killer. It was a joke we used around her camp," and, "I've never threatened anyone." In a statement to TMZ that the paper also published, he said, "I am a security professional and I am a killer. However, nothing in his lawsuit were threats and most of the comments I stand by." His denials are his account. They are not the chancellor's ruling.

The new paper in the file is about service. USA TODAY reported that She's Alive's Oct. 5 filings allege that on three occasions he "attempted to evade service of process, and this Court should not reward that behavior." A process server's affidavit, as the paper described it, says that around 4:35 p.m. on Sept. 24 no one answered, that no one answered on Sept. 25, and that on the evening of Sept. 26 the server found "no trespassing" signs, yellow caution tape, and barbed wire "surrounding the front steps." An affidavit is one side's sworn account of those visits. USA TODAY reported it had asked Seaver's attorney for comment. The Oct. 20 hearing is the next date on the order.